55 Metaphors for mouth

all the time, and her mouth is the kind that never shows any teeth when it smiles, and doesn't smile much, anyway.

Her face has beauty, we must all confess, But beauty on the brink of ugliness: Her mouth's a rabbit feeding on a rose; With eyesten times too good for such a nose!

The mouth full of cursing and bitterness, the throat an open sepulcher, the poison of asps under the tongue, the feet swift to shed blood, destruction and misery in their paths, and the way of peace unknown to them, are the clearest and amplest demonstration that men "have gone out of the way," "have together become unprofitable."

Her expansive face had no lines in it, and her mouth was a perfection of curves, the teeth white and even.

The light is more concentrated, and the mouth of the tunnel we have just entered might be the entrance to Hadesfor there is no telltale spot of light to prove to our senses the existence of any opening at the other end.

The mouth is peculiarly the index of mental and moral refinement, and a refined pair of lips can inspire as pure a love as the celestial beauty of innocent eyes.

And Rudolph Musgrave noted, with a delicious tingling somewhere about his heart, that her hair was really like the reflection of a sunset in rippling waters,only many times more beautiful, of course,and that her mouth was an inconsiderable trifle, a scrap of sanguine curves, and that her eyes were purple glimpses of infinity.

His mouth was wide and good-humored, his chin long and broad, his ears enormous in size and set at right angles with his head.

He knew his job well enough, but with a haze on the river and the twilight drawing in rapidly, the mouth of the Thames is no place for single-handed sailingespecially when you're in a hurry.

A bald head, at the present day, is as great an indecency as Humphrey Clinker's unmentionables; and a dismantled mouth is an outrage on well-bred society.

" Impulsively he held out his hand to her, his mouth twitching with emotion, some sort of strange impulse shining in his eyes, "Be my enemy, even," he said, "only, do not leave me.

The mouth is the cavity formed by the lips, the cheeks, the palate, and the tongue.

I don't know whether I told you that the mountains of Scotland are "Bens," and the mouths of rivers are "abers," and islands are "inches."

But what attracted me most was the mouth a mouth at once delicate and humourous, a little large and with the lips full enough to betoken vigour, yet not too full for fineness.

She was old, an' thin, an' hard-lookin'; her mouth was pale an' sot, like she was bitin' somethin' all the time; an' her eyes, though they was sunk into her head, seemed to look through an' through an' away out th' other side

She looked on, the picture of misery, and her mouth was a thin line of silence across her wrinkled impassive countenance.

His mouth was a mass of blood.

He could not look steadily upon the placid features; the calm eyes turned his heart to stone; the sweet mouth was an accuser he dared not face.

I'd get up and kiss you, only my mouth is all jam.

He says, "Let Aristophanes and his comedians make plays and scour their mouths on Socrates, these very mouths they make to vilify shall be the means to amplify his virtues," etc.

No alms, no prayers, fall from him without a witness, belike lest God should deny that He hath received them; and when he hath done (lest the world should not know it) his own mouth is his trumpet to proclaim it.

We had designed to go on at evening up the Caucomgomoc, whose mouth was a mile or two distant, to the lake of the same name, about ten miles off; but some Indians of Joe's acquaintance, who were making canoes on the Caucomgomoc, came over from that side, and gave so poor an account of the moose-hunting, so many had been killed there lately, that my companions concluded not to go there.

O nurse, her mouth is all blood.

The whole mouth is a conical box, called by naturalists "Aristotle's lantern.

The lion's mouth at Venice, into which secret denunciations were dropped, is an apt illustration of the Covode committee.

55 Metaphors for  mouth